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Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED!
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That explains a lot! Your Mona Lisa smile, for example!
Tim wrote: "I always keep my suspenders up..."I do hope that you are referring to the US usage of that word.
Might just be practising for Rocky Horror...
Back to writing book 2 now... :)has anyone played with the X-Ray/Shelfari stuff? Seem to be one of the Kindle's best hidden secrets - I don't think I've seen more than a handful of books with X-Ray extras, and none of them were indies...
Had a fun couple of days location scouting for book 2 in Liverpool. A couple more things to look at, then back home tonight. Meanwhile here are some pictures...https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...
Cor, some good shots there. When's book 1 coming out? Or are you keeping us waiting till they're all written?
Nice pics Tim. I've never been to Liverpool!
I'm holding it back a little, but mostly because my writer's group crit got split across two sessions (the first part was really worthwhile - those people know their onions) & I'd rather hold off for a few weeks to fix any issues raised than release an update a couple of weeks later. As a wise young lady said to me quite recently, you only get one chance to make a good first impression...And I can also plant a few seeds that'll bloom in books 2 & 3 ;)
Rosemary wrote: "Nice pics Tim. I've never been to Liverpool!"Nor me till now. There really is nothing like visiting the places you're going to write about - the stuff you pick up from just being there, not to mention the brilliant local guides I had, and access into places that are not on the tourist circuit (or Google StreetView!).
Book 3 has to be set in the Caribbean, there's simply no other choice (this is genuinely true, btw). And of course, there will *have* to be a location scouting trip. (just need to find someone to pay for it...)
Poor Flick... She does have a hard time of it, and it's not entirely her fault.This time I blame the baby.
Meanwhile, as I try to write a scene where Flick is being annoyed by a particularly annoying baby, I'm sitting in a cafe being annoyed by a particularly annoying baby...
I guess thats irony.
Serves you right for not publishing Book 1!
Consider this: you will have a shorter wait for book 2 as a result... ;)
I do like the way that goodreads tells me there's a comment to my thread just after I've replied to it!!
Tim wrote: "Consider this: you will have a shorter wait for book 2 as a result... ;)"This is true.
Tim wrote: "I do like the way that goodreads tells me there's a comment to my thread just after I've replied to it!!"So is this!
Okay, so I had the final dev edit session this week, and the good news is, I was right to hold back book 1. There's a few changes that I need to make which will fill some plot holes, clarify some uncertainties, squeak some pips and generally betterify it.Now I'm already 75% through the resulting final edit (which actually sounds better than it is, because there's a couple of new scenes I need to write from scratch, possibly around 2-3000 words), but it's looking close. Damn close.
Oh, and the downside of doing a devedit (for some main characters anyway) is you get to make certain... cuts. Kill your darlings is apparently the mantra of editors. Well this character fell under the knife in a rather literal manner: Contract not renewed, as they say.
Anyone got a cloth?
You messy beggar. Not sure if I want to read it now :(
Not even a little curious? Did she - or he - deserve it? Will there be repercussions? I took two goes to type that word, now if that's not dedication I don't know what is!
You repercussed, did you? Well, of course I'm curious. I'm a nosy beggar. You can't keep me away from it!
Yup. I percussed, and then I did it again.
Two drums. Or a pair of cymbals.
Who are you killing off now, Tim???
I would suggest we have to read it to find out DD.
I would think it is someone that people liked and were looking forward to finding out more about them in later books.
I still have my doubts as to some of the *deaths* in book 1...
Oh, ye of little faith!
I should get round to reading Tim's books...
He should get around to publishing them!
I thought he has one available???
I think he's got his knicker elastic caught round the KDP button!
I'v got what round me what????
Patti (Fluffy) wrote: "I should get round to reading Tim's books..."You can read the first few chapters (roughly equivalent to the Amazon sample) on my webby: http://www.tim-arnot.com/felicity-car...
:)
I hate reading off a screen. :(Email me a PDF?
You have a kindle. In what sense is that not a screen?
You know there's a huge difference,Dopey.
Look, Patti, if you don't want to read it, that's fine - it doesn't bother me. But I've spent far too many years in a software industry full of dickwads that make you jump through hoop after hoop despite having no intention of buying your product to want to start playing that game here.It's a free sample. It's available on the web exclusively, and not anywhere else. Revel in the exclusiveness that you have a link that so few other could ever hope to see.
Okay, so I've been trying to play "thinky uppy". My editing wallah said you need two scenes featuring x, between there and there, and they've got to advance this plot, and explain y and make sense in the context of z.That's basically like spinning six plates on top of spikes while juggling flaming torches, cooking dinner, and *then* thinking of something to write. And don't forget to add more subtext and inner monologue at the same time.
So I looked at a blank screen for a while (well, actually KUF), poked around Google Streetview to get a feel for the lie of the land, Got out Microsoft flight sim for the same purpose & did some fly-bys, and eventually came up with an idea or two. One of them was almost good, but radically shifted various outcomes and would mean essentially rewriting the final third. The other one was basically crap, but at least it didn't alter the story too much. Ho hum.
In the end I said sod it, and went to see Dead Man Down at the cinema. That was a bit of a mixed blessing. The film was great - much better than the Rotten Tomatoes rating led me to believe - and way better than Place Among the Pines, which I saw last week and thought was total crap. Anyhow, it stars Noomi Rapace and Colin Farell, and was directed by the guy behind the original Dragon Tattoo films. It's a kind of suspense thriller. I won't go into the plot, cos it's way past late, and no one reads this drivel anyhow. But the bad thing was, it wasn't showing an my local cineworld (which I get into for free), so I had to trudge up to Oxford and see it at the Vue. And *boy* was that expensive. Now I pay £15 a month for my Cineworld Unlimited card, but this one film, for the ticket and a cup of coffee cost me *16 quid*!!!
Next time I'll just buy the blu-ray, it'll be much cheaper!
Poor Tim!!!It's such a pest when that happens!!! Have a brownie and some fluffy pillows.
I'd rather have a good idea... ;)
Ummm.....I always go by: when in doubt, add some visigoths!!! ;-P
Alaric the visigoth sails up the Severn in a ship laden to the gunwales with high tech munitions supplies for a beleaguered garrison...Could work, I suppose. Bit deus ex machinary though ;)
Tim wrote: "Alaric the visigoth sails up the Severn in a ship laden to the gunwales with high tech munitions supplies for a beleaguered garrison...Could work, I suppose. Bit deus ex machinary though ;)"
O.O
I'd read it!!!
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